Christopher Fox (1955) has emerged as one of the most fascinating composers of the post-war generation. His spirit of experimentalism pervades an oeuvre in which he has blithely created his own
version of a range of contemporary musical practices. In his work many of the major expressions of European cultural activity - Darmstadt, Fluxus, spectralism, postminimalism and more - are
assimilated to produce a voice which is uniquely resonant and multi-faceted. In this, the first major study of his work, a number of musicologists, composers, thinkers and practitioners
scrutinize aspects of Fox’s music, each exploring elements that relate to their own distinct areas of practice, tracing Fox’s compositional trajectory and situating it within post-war
contemporary European music practice. Above all this book addresses the question, how can one person dip his fingers into so many paint pots and yet retain a coherent compositional vision? The
range of Fox’s musical concerns make his work of interest to anyone who wants to study the development of so-called new music spanning the latter twentieth century into the twenty first
century.
